VLVL "the famous worms of song" (238)

[Bandwraith at aol.com]

Frenesi has no idea of the meaning of the tiny pinochle players
until years later. In fact, it is only the song which makes the
trip across a universe of time and space. The players have become
human. This is a premonition offered by the narrator to the
reader alone: Frenesi will be around years later, unlike Weed.

What's interesting is the way Pynchon uses, what must seem
like a bizarre coincidence in Frenesi's flashed-backed mind, to
supply the reader with this premonition, and to ponder its
meaning with respect to the future of "justice."

respectfully